I've always been easily frightened by media, particularly film and games, but mostly the latter. Any game can scare me, even if it isn't intentional, especially glitches. The voices in Star Fox were unsettling to me, the transition level between the ground and sky in SMB3 made of bricks frightened me (I broke through the right wall and found a box on the other end floating there, sent chills down my spine for literally no reason and I freaked out), and plenty others.

Tomb Raider and Metal Gear Solid on PS1 made me **** myself, I wouldn't leave the safety of the first area in MGS1 (where you gotta crawl under something to get past enemies and up the elevator) and in Tomb Raider (demo) it started off in a jail, and an alarm was going off and I wasn't having any of that so I tried to hide. I uh, hid in games a lot. Kinda my thing.

DKC had some scary areas, like the Stop & Go levels. Plenty more I can't recall.

that one rugrats episode where chuckie goes through an Its A Wonderful Life scenario was really upsetting also, cant explain why but something about seeing how miserable everyone's lives with the pacing and structure of the episode just really got to me

oh and idk if this counts but sometimes at the very end of a vhs tape it would make sounds like a phone dialing and that always unnerved me

the skeleton at the end of this short (timestamped) freaked me the hell out when it aired on Cartoon Network's O Canada. it aired late at night and I was in bed and also like seven years old. really stuck with me

A coworker usually has a "question of the day" that he asks everyone throughout the shift to get conversation going, and he asked this question a bit before Halloween. My answer was Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. My goodness Christopher Lloyd is terrifying at the end of that film.

Also the Sonic drowning music was the scariest f***ing s*** and still gives me anxiety to this day.

ReDeads and spiders in video games. I rarely listen to video game music because a lot of it used to freak me out with the "hurry up or you DIE" tempo. UGH!!! As for movies... I still haven't and can't watch most horror movies and will happily live my life out without seeing them.

There's a display of indigenous peoples' ritual masks at the Milwaukee Public Museum. It's been there for years and years and years.

Like, I've never been scared of the huge 'tyrannosaurus eating a triceratops' diorama, or the mummies, or the skull panel, but this damn thing gave me nightmares as a kid, and it's still strangely unsettling to me even now.

I'm not sure how much of this memory I've got right, but I think I was staying up way later than usual one night watching tv alone when an anti-smoking psa came on. It was the party from the Wizard of Oz walking in a sneak towards the screen along the yellow brick road, and then they issued hushed warnings about the harm of smoking directly to the viewer.

The Shadow Temple from Ocarina of Time - just - the entire thing. I was so scared of turning the corner of one hallway solely because I kept hearing a guillotine-like sound.

The opening scene to Speed with the people trapped in the elevator scared me when I was reeeaaaallly little - like 5 years old. I was so scared of going into elevators after that. It was a well-known phase that my family remembers where I didn't want to step into elevators.